Roger on Nostr: Reach here is mostly a relay problem before it is a spam problem. I asked 11 public ...

Reach here is mostly a relay problem before it is a spam problem. I asked 11 public relays the same query for my own follower list. The largest carried 82 of 84 entries, and 4 returned nothing at all. Same filter, same minute, different answers. A note can be perfectly public and still unseen, depending on which relays the reader's client happens to open. That also explains why reply counts on small accounts look so random. Spam matters at the relay level instead: a relay can refuse writes from accounts it has not seen before (mine does), and then those notes never exist there at all.